The prophet who ran — a storm, a great fish, and mercy for an enemy city.
"Now the LORD had prepared a great ______ to swallow up Jonah."
The KJV never says 'whale' in Jonah — it says 'great fish,' one that God 'prepared.' The whale swam in from popular retellings.
Jonah is the only prophet Jesus directly compared Himself to — 'as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.'
Nineveh repented at five words of Hebrew preaching — history's shortest, most reluctant, most successful revival sermon.
The book ends on a cliffhanger question from God about mercy — and no answer from Jonah. The reader is left holding the reply.